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AG Gansler: Wells Fargo Settles Over “Pick-a-Payment” Mortgages
BALTIMORE, MD - January 5, 2012 - (RealEstateRama) -- Attorney General Douglas F. Gansler announced today that his Consumer Protection Division has entered into an agreement with Wells Fargo over the allegedly deceptive marketing of adjustable rate mor...
ARRA Funds to Help Reduce Energy Costs in Buildings; Building Operations Staff Encouraged to...
December 19, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- Managers of buildings and properties in Montgomery County or building staff who reside in the County are encouraged to sign up for an energy management training program that will help them reduce the operating co...
County Department of Housing and Community Affairs Seeks Input on Housing Policy
November 22, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- Montgomery County’s Department of Housing and Community Affairs (DHCA) is sponsoring two public meetings to hear from residents and organizations interested in contributing to the update of the 2001 Housing Pol...
Ruppersberger to Host Foreclosure Prevention Workshop
Owings Mills, MD - November 18, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- Congressman C.A. Dutch Ruppersberger (D-MD) will host a foreclosure prevention workshop in Owings Mills tomorrow, Saturday, November 18, 2011, to help keep Maryland families in their homes. The...
CARDIN MEETS WITH MARYLAND HOUSING OFFICIALS TO DISCUSS FORECLOSURE CRISIS
CROWNSVILLE, MD - October 31, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- U.S. Senator Ben Cardin (D-MD) today met with officials of the Maryland Department of Housing and Community Development (DHCD) and statewide housing advocates to discuss the continuing foreclosur...
Montgomery County Office of Human Rights to Host Fair Housing Forum
October 31, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- Montgomery County’s Office of Human Rights and the Interagency Fair Housing Coordinating Group will host an educational forum about fair housing on Thursday, November 10 from 11:30 a.m. to 4 p.m., at the Silver ...
Montgomery County Awards Commercial and Multi-Family Energy Efficiency Incentives; $1.7 Million in ARRA Funds...
October 20, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- The Montgomery County Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) announced that 43 businesses, multi-family properties and faith-based organizations are in various stages of completing energy efficiency projects...
Governor Martin O’Malley, Lt. Governor Anthony G. Brown Announce Relocation of Maryland Department of...
New Carrollton, MD - September 20, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- Governor Martin O’Malley and Lt. Governor Anthony G. Brown, joined by Prince George’s County Executive Rushern Baker, today announced the relocation of the Maryland Department of ...
Montgomery County Homeowners Invited to One-on-One Foreclosure Prevention Counseling
September 12, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- The Montgomery County Department of Housing and Community Affairs (DHCA), in partnership with the Montgomery County Housing Fair Planning Committee and the City of Gaithersburg, invites all county homeowners ...
Office of Consumer Protection Advises Homeowners To Use Only Licensed Contractors for Home Repairs
August 30, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- The Montgomery County Office of Consumer Protection (OCP) warns county residents to be cautious when hiring contractors to repair damage caused by last week’s earthquake and the recent hurricane and advises co...
Montgomery County Launches Program to Help Residents Improve the Energy Efficiency of their Homes
August 26, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- Montgomery County today launched the Residential Energy Efficiency Rebate Program that will provide incentives of up to $3,000 to owner occupants of single family homes and condominiums who make new energy effic...
Free Workshop Planned to Help Residents Facing Foreclosure
August 22, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- Montgomery County’s Department of Housing and Community Affairs, the Maryland Department of Housing and Community Development and the City of Gaithersburg will co-host HomeFree-USA’s free workshop on Saturday, August 27, to assist persons faced with possible mortgage foreclosures. The workshop will take place at 610 East Diamond Avenue, Gaithersburg.
MARYLAND AG’s CONSUMER PROTECTION DIVISION ORDERS BALTIMORE CO. HOME BUILDER TO PAY MORE THAN...
BALTIMORE, MD - August 17, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- Attorney General Douglas F. Gansler's Consumer Protection Division today issued a final order requiring a home builder and its principal to refund payments of $111,637.74 collected from multiple consumers to construct a home in Baltimore County. The builder must also pay penalties of $9,000 and investigation costs of $4,026.69.
County and State Co-Host Foreclosure Workshop
August 2, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- Montgomery County’s Department of Housing and Community Affairs and the Maryland Department of Housing and Community Development will co-host a free workshop on Monday, August 8 from 3 to 8 p.m., to assist those faced with possible mortgage foreclosures. The workshop will take place at the Silver Spring Civic Building, One Veterans Place, Silver Spring
NATION’S TOP BLACK LAWYERS AND JUDGES TO CONVENE AT ANNUAL CONFERENCE IN BALTIMORE
Washington, D.C. - August 1, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- Thousands of members of the National Bar Association (NBA), one of the nation's premier legal organizations, will gather in Baltimore, Maryland from July 31-August 4 to attend seminars and forums in conjunction with the organization's 86th annual convention. Commencing with a joint-town hall meeting with the American Bar Association entitled, "The War Against Foreclosures: Combating Foreclosures and the Mortgage Crisis in Communities of Color," the 86th Annual Convention will be the foreground for discussing the nation's top legal, social and economic issues.
Ruppersberger to Host Prevention Workshop As Experts Predict Fresh Foreclosure Wave
Joppa, MD - July 26, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- As the nation’s foreclosure crisis persists, Congressman C.A. Dutch Ruppersberger (D-MD) announced today his office will host a foreclosure prevention workshop in Joppa on Thursday, July 28, 2011. The workshop will give Maryland homeowners a chance to meet one-on-one with their mortgage lender, servicers and counselors. This is the fourth such workshop Congressman Ruppersberger has hosted since 2010, helping more than 100 families facing foreclosure.
Maryland Regulator Testifies on Mortgage Origination on Behalf of CSBS
Washington, D.C. - July 14, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- Anne Balcer Norton, Deputy Commissioner of the Maryland Office of the Commissioner of Financial Regulation, testified on behalf of the Conference of State Bank Supervisors (CSBS) before the Insurance, Housing and Community Opportunity Subcommittee of the House Financial Services Committee on mortgage origination today. Norton detailed efforts by state regulators to improve and enhance mortgage regulation to better protect consumers and to strengthen the mortgage market itself, but also to ensure a diverse mortgage industry which supports a variety of business models.
Attorney General Gansler Orders Home Builders to Repay Consumers
BALTIMORE, MD - June 30, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- Attorney General Douglas F. Gansler has announced that the Consumer Protection Division has issued a final order requiring Bay Area Design & Build, Inc. and its principals to refund $10,000 collected from consumers to construct a home in Anne Arundel County and pay a penalty of $3,000. The Division found the builder and its principals, Gregory Louis Haigis and Robert Scott Huff, violated Maryland's Custom Home Protection Act by failing to place or maintain money in an escrow account, failing to have a surety bond to protect those deposits and payments and failing to construct the home
***Emergency Building Closure for Tuesday, June 21*** County’s Piccard Drive HHS Building Closed Tuesday...
June 21, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- Montgomery County’s Department of Health and Human Services building at 1301 Piccard Drive in Rockville will be closed on Tuesday, June 21 because of a non-working air conditioning system. The Montgomery County Crisis Center, located on the first floor of the building, will remain open for telephone and walk-in crisis service.
Rep. Roscoe Bartlett Invites You to Attend the 3rd Annual Go Green Conference Mon....
Washington, DC - June 13, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- WHAT:
The Go Green Energy Conference is a free community service event designed for homeowners, farmers and small business owners to discover practical ways that you can save money, use less energy and go green on any size budget. This year will be bigger and better than the first two Go Green Energy Conferences in 2009 and 2010 that were attended by more than 1,000 people. Come see indoor and outdoor exhibitors and learn tips from experts in breakout sessions. Go Green 2011 has MORE exhibit space and is still FREE to Exhibit and FREE to Attend with FREE PARKING!
Bozzuto Homes Commences Construction on Towson Green, Townhome Development Recognized for Environmental Achievements
Greenbelt, MD - June 7, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- Bozzuto Homes, a subsidiary of The Bozzuto Group of companies, will host a groundbreaking event today at 11:00am EDT at Towson Green, a new sustainable townhome development in Baltimore County. The community has been recognized for its environmental achievements by The Chesapeake Fund, a non-profit project that works to reduce the amount of the Chesapeake Bay’s two biggest pollutants – nitrogen and phosphorous.
FEDERAL REALTY AND ZIPCAR ANNOUNCE PROGRAM TO OFFER ENVIRONMENTALLY-FRIENDLY CAR SHARING SERVICE TO PATRONS...
ROCKVILLE, MD - May 18, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- Federal Realty Investment Trust (NYSE:FRT) and Zipcar, Inc. (Nasdaq: ZIP) today announced a new program to provide patrons in Washington, D.C. and the metropolitan area access to the world’s leading car-sharing network from the Trust’s shopping centers. The cost-effective and convenient transportation amenity is available 24 hours a day, seven days a week to members of the community, ages 21 and older
Governor Martin O’Malley and Lt. Governor Anthony G. Brown Highlight Foreclosure Prevention in Maryland
ANNAPOLIS, MD - May 10, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- Governor Martin O’Malley and Lt. Governor Anthony G. Brown today joined members of the Administration, community leaders and local elected officials at the home of Prince George’s County resident Fanny Melvin to encourage homeowners at risk of losing their homes to take advantage of foreclosure prevention programs in Maryland, including the Emergency Mortgage Assistance Program (EMA), the MDHOPE Network and available counseling services throughout the state.
Leggett Presents Housing Advocate Award to Maryland Lt. Governor At 20th Annual Affordable Housing...
May 9, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- County Executive Isiah Leggett today presented Lt. Governor Brown with the Robert C. Weaver Housing Champion Award at the 20th Annual Affordable Housing Conference. Also attending the conference were Congressman Chris Van Hollen, former Senator Paul Sarbanes, Maryland Governor Martin O’Malley, Lt. Governor Anthony Brown and housing advocates.
Attorney General Gansler Files Charges Against Unlicensed Charles County Home Builder
BALTIMORE, MD - April 18, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- Attorney General Douglas F. Gansler announced today that his Consumer Protection Division's Home Builder Registration Unit has filed charges against Antoine Knott of Bel Alton, for failing to comply with Maryland's Home Builder Registration Act, Consumer Protection Act, and Custom Home Protection Act.
Montgomery County Recognizes Building Safety Month in May
April 11, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- To help raise awareness of building safety, Montgomery County’s Department of Permitting Services (DPS) is celebrating Building Safety Month by offering free deck maintenance inspections for single-family detached homes, townhouses and duplex dwellings. The inspections are available to all Montgomery County residents – excluding those in the City of Rockville and the City of Gaithersburg. The inspection will include a checklist for homeowners to help them maintain a safe and sound structure
Eligible Homeowners Should Apply for Property Tax Credit by May 1; Will Ensure that...
April 7, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- Montgomery County homeowners who have a limited income or are at least 70 years of age may be eligible for property tax credits that will limit the amount of taxes they must pay. One application will determine eligibility for three programs -- the Maryland Homeowners’ Property Tax Credit Program; the Montgomery County Supplemental Property Tax Credit; and the Montgomery County Senior Property Tax Credit.
Governor Martin O’Malley Announces Emergency Mortgage Assistance for Unemployed Homeowners
ANNAPOLIS, MD - April 4, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- Governor Martin O’Malley today announced a $40 million program to assist homeowners in addressing back mortgage payments. The funding comes from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development with the goal of helping homeowners who are facing foreclosure due to job loss or a decrease in wages, including those who lost income due to illness.
“Come Home to Howard County” Housing Fair Set for April 9
ELLICOTT CITY, MD - March 25, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- Howard County Housing will host the “Come Home to Howard County” Housing Fair on Saturday, April 9 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at Long Reach High School, 6101 Old Dobbin Lane in Columbia. The event is free and open to the public.
State and County Housing Offices to Host Fair Housing Forum
March 21, 2011 - (RealEstateRama) -- The Maryland Department of Housing and Community Development, in partnership with Montgomery County’s Office of Human Rights and Department of Housing and Community Affairs, will host an educational forum about fair housing on Thursday, April 7 from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m., at the Silver Spring Civic Building, One Veterans Place, Silver Spring.
